Move along. See the content of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Researchers, well-known and not-so-well-known three-letters agencies, even news agencies have been able to do this sort of things for years.

Autonomous driving is a hard AI problem with a lot of constraints and the capacity to actually kill people, both in the car and outside, so it must be taken very seriously. The mere idea of privately-developed, close-source software driving tons of hardware at highway speed without supervision is enough to evoke nightmares.

AI has made a lot of progress lately. Somewhat hardish AI problems that we can solve today are in the order of facial recognition, language translation, categorising the content of images, helping with the diagnosis of some illnesses like skin cancer, etc. These are incredibly useful, but notice that they still have a non-zero error rate. The current state of the art on ImageNet for picture recognition is in the ordre of 3%, and they are relatively easy to fool. If you have ever used google translate, you must know its limitations.

Autonomous cars need to have a precise image of their surrounding up to a few hundred meters in all conditions (day, night, wet, etc), very frequently updated, and they need to be able to anticipate other drivers as well as other hazards on the road. The technology is simply not there yet, even with the 70k$ sensors that Waymo uses.

We all want this technology to be here and to be better than humans at driving. This sounds easy since most of us drivers think everyone else drives like an idiot, however, the fatality rate in cars is in the order of 1 death per 100 million miles travelled. This is actually very low. This presents a challenge to the autonomous driving research community, because to certify that their system is actually better than humans, they will have to travel significantly more than hundreds of millions of miles, in real, not simulated or recorded conditions. The cost of doing this is astronomical, and it must be done everytime a new version comes out.

Trusting this software is going to be very hard in practice.

Source: RAND corp.

The cracks are in the carbon moderator inside the reactor. The moderator is rated for cracks about 10mm wide. The largest are currently 2mm wide. Not saying this is safe, but the reporting is kind of shabby and clearly designed to get readers all worked up.

15$ without benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc) comes to 2500$ per month if working 40h week. Doing much more than that is hard if you are truly developing. Then you have to pay for health insurance, and save for retirement. Your net pay will end up being be far less than 1500 euros.

Full body PET/CT scanners already exist but they can only scan slice-by-slice. This one creates an image in real-time of the whole body in 3D.

PET scanning is invasive because it requires the injection of a radioactive tracer. The scanner actually records simultaneous gamma-ray disintegrations. There are many available tracers allowing to measure for instance glucose metabolism, which is great for oncology (cancer medicine). This is currently the most precise way to detect many cancer lesions, particularly lymphoma, cancers of the lymphatic system. Other tracers can be used to measure for instance blood perfusion.

This scanner is also interesting because it is less wasteful with gamma photons. This means that less tracer can be injected for the same image quality.

Your own car can now serve:

1- As an automated kidnapping device
2- As a weapon in any violent crime
3- As a bargaining chip against you in any negotiation

It can also handily be repossessed easily, all of the above at a small cost in hacking. Basically a terrible idea.

How about AI that doesn't require GPUs to train and run? These are terrible for the environment.

Not quite.

- I'm not aware that you can typeset whole documents, including mathematics, in the Matlab UI. see nbviewer website
- I'm not aware that you can do slideshow presentations in Matlab, using something as simple as markdown.
- Plots and graphics are not embeddable in the Matlab command line.

On the other hand you can use Matlab as a GUI builder, which you cannot do as easily with Jupyter. see dashboards in jupyter

Maybe the 12% who don't exercise have poor health to begin with?

For some reason people find the method you mention messy.

An excellent point.

Debian is not derived from RedHat. Debian 0.0.1 was created in 1993. Redhat first release was in 1995.

Every major distro uses systemd now. By all means, feel free to use any of the init-based distribution if you feel strongly about it.

I've been using Apple routers for a long time with mixed results. The express line is simple but not fast or very robust. ISP provide their own wifi routers now, so why bother? My time capsules have always failed (typically shortly after the warranty period expired) so now I'm just using a large NAS.

How many billion miles travelled per day? The relevant statistic is the number of fatalities per billion miles (or km) traveled. See here. We don't know for sure the relevant statistics for driver-assisted vehicles.

There is a very good chance that driver assistance is going to improve the fatalities statistics, but this needs to be done correctly.

Compared to petrol, electricity is free. You can fill an electric car for 400km for 2 euros. Currently this is like 30€ for petrol in Europe.